Rather, some of us didn”t know Jon Stewart”s replacement on “The Daily Show” has a history of tweeting things he probably thinks are funny, but some find anti-Semitic and/or anti-Israel.

Within a day of the biracial, 31-year-old South African being named Stewart”s successor, some people looked at his past tweets. According to USA Today, they found some borderline ones:

Abe Foxman, the director of the Anti-Defamation League, released a statement saying the group wishes Noah success and urges him to make sure “The Daily Show” “remains funny and irreverent without trafficking in bigoted jokes at the expense of Jews.”

Foxman added, “We need humor — perhaps now more than ever — and we hope that he will build on Jon Stewart”s great legacy. We understand that comedians often use humor to poke fun at stereotypes and to push the envelope of political correctness, and it seems that many if not most of the tweets sent by Trevor Noah over the years fall into those categories.

“We hope he will not cross the line from legitimate satire into offensiveness with jokes calling up anti-Semitic stereotypes and misogyny.”

The show”s network, Comedy Central, hadn”t made a public statement about the tweets as of Tuesday morning.

But Noah did, according to MSNBC, in a tweet Tuesday morning that was later deleted.

“Twitter does not have enough characters to respond to all the characters on Twitter,” he wrote.

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